Adventures in Quiet Desperation: I went on a mini-vacation to PAX south with my best friend/object of my longtime attraction and affection last weekend. It was a mini-vacation because it was only for three days and the town was only an hour away. But it was nice. We stayed in a nice hotel, the convention was really…

*fans self* Oh, do go on. If you wanted to provide documentation - maybe some pictures or videos - I certainly wouldn't object. All out of scholarly interest.

If you're open to taking turns, I would like to get in line for this ride.

Oh my god, that's so cute that it actually causes me pain.

. . . I am just going to forget that I read this. Much like the entirety of the last three Dark Tower books, I feel like it will be easier that way.

N is for anywhere and any time at all!

He is back. He is hot. He is also not even really recognizable at the same character, woefully (and insultingly) under-used, and will be on his way out in a few episodes. I'd honestly suggest just looking at these picture for an equivalent amount of time instead:

I'm still collecting my thoughts on the dumpster fire that this show took a hard left turn into. That said, I'd add Becky's confused, almost angry reading of "but if this is, like, a dream sequence - how could you film that!?" to the list of things that genuinely made me laugh in this episode.

Aw, shucks. *kicks pebble*

It will get better. The pain and rage will dull. It's an empty platitude, I know, but it doesn't make it not true.

My entire body is basically average. It's great - I can both feel insecure regarding the portion of the population that is better looking than me, then comfort myself that I'm still doing better than the best.

Christ, I'm sorry about all of it. I'm not really the person to give advice, my life experience isn't exactly plentiful, but I think it's right of you to keep her in mind, first and foremost. This is her pain, and it's her experience to deal with. You can try to tell her that you're there for her if she ever needs to…

IT CAN HAPPEN!!!

I'm totally shipping Helloooooo Nurse and Helloooooo Nurse's new beau. Expect to see tumblr explode with this shit by the end of the week. Living vicariously is the only true way to live!

That really did take a toll on things. Some of the X-men stuff that followed was pretty good - really batshit stuff that I, at least, hadn't seen before. And it actually mostly stayed true to the characters - which is more than can be said for the last third of pre-Ultimatum Ultimate X-men. Kitty Pride got her due at…

He's been rocking the voice-acting jobs lately, though. Iron Bull was fantastic.

This album is so freakin' great that I will have to force myself to break away from it to listen to the new Belle and Sebastian and Sleater-Kinney records.

But, uh, MFA's in screenwriting are alright, right? Right? No thinkpieces here, no Sir . . .

Thankfully, this was not my experience. Everyone in my screenwriting classes wanted to be the favorite, and we were willing to tear each other apart in order t make that happen.

I loved Pepper Ann when I was a kid, and I was surprised that it holds up as well as it does. Still some very funny stuff - kind of a like a younger-aimed Daria. And like Daria, the theme song is tops.